Happy holidays and best wishes for the coming year from the EVE Online Customer Support Team! From early December, and running up to the holidays themselves, CCP had promotional items available for the Crucible expansion as well as the yearly holiday gift available to all active players. These were announced in their respective blogs. Get jacked in the for the holidays with the genolution ca-1 The genolution ca-2 implant is yours to redeem Important information regarding the neural remap gift I...

For months we have observed as fans asked for a Beta date on DUST 514, our PlayStation® 3 exclusive persistent shooter. During that time the DUST 514 team has worked busily on the game, preparing for the moment when the first inhabitants of New Eden descend from the skies to the planets below. That time is now. It is with great joy that I can now officially announce that registration for DUST 514: Mordu’s Private Trials, our gated access beta test, has finally begun! For now, registration is av...

From the mighty pen of Tony Gonzales… Dear Friends, It is my great honor to present the latest addition to the EVE universe: EVE: Templar One, available in bookstores near you this January 3rd. This novel unveils the backstory to DUST 514, a tale about the first immortal soldiers of New Eden.

CCP Zulu: The past 18 months have been quite the ride. Since taking on the position of Senior Producer in the summer of 2010, EVE has gone through a lot of change. From the Incursion expansion adding rich, cooperative PVE and recreating and reinventing the avatars in EVE with the critically acclaimed new character creator; to Incarna and the extraordinary circumstances that lead to player protests.

"Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day, you po-hodd-ed me..." Back in December 2010 I wrote a dev blog about why we were putting the chronicles on hold and what was going to be one of my new projects from then on.

The four price indices of New Eden have been calculated for November 2011. My apologies for failing to deliver the index blog for October. For more detail on the indices, please refer to the Market Indices page on Evelopedia. Prices of PI made products rise considerably in November and started doing so mid October, with another spike at the end of November. The first spike coincides with a blog announcing player-owned customs offices and changes to import and export tax, while the other spike h...

Greetings Tranquility Residents, A few weeks ago we ran a Live Event in Tama where us devs got out of our Polaris frigates and picked up arms against all comers. It was terrific fun for us, and from the feedback received, it looks to have been a hit with you folks as well. Today I want to talk about some of the more technical aspects of that event and what it shows about our progress against the “Lag” problem, as well as pointing at the road to the future. So first up, let’s look at how well th...

At 15.38, on the 9th of December, reports sprung up that a hostile fleet from the long-dormant CCP Alliance had mobilized and were escorting a cargo of loot to their Christmas party. Capsuleers all across New Eden rushed to their intel channels to learn more. Questions flooded in: „Where would they appear? What would they carry? What would they be flying? Did they know how to fit yet?“ but answers were few. As time went on, the populace grew impatient, then angry, proclaiming the reports to be ...

Last year we gave away Neural Remaps as many of you remember. They worked out differently for different people and this time around we happily tossed them on the list of gift selections (perhaps without enough foresight some would say). We got a lot of questions and quality feedback from the community in the last two days and quickly realized that expectations about the bonus Neural Remaps varied from reality amongst many members of our community, and that the remaps were likely to leave many d...

Join us March 22nd-24th at the newly-constructed Harpa Conference Center for Fanfest 2012 in Reykjavík, Iceland. Tickets are now available, with special Early Bird Pricing if you buy before January 31st.

With Crucible recently deployed, CCP Guard thought I should post up a new dev blog showing you all some stats on the goings on since, as apparently a couple of you enjoy these. First up, the tier three battlecruisers appear to have been a real hit. 3,541 different characters produced a total of 47,023 of them as of 12:00am on Wednesday 7th December.

Greetings again Capsuleers, It's time for more delicious brain implants. After downtime on Dec 12th and running through Dec 21st , you will find the Genolution CA-2 available via the redemption system. Be sure to log in and redeem yours, the set bonus is pretty darn nice overall. As an added bonus, we will also be unveiling the 2011 Holiday Gift during the same period.

One thing I keep a close eye on as part of my role at CCP is the level of PVP activity within EVE. Seeing how many of you blow each other up and how often you do so is an important metric for seeing how much fun everyone is having. So, conveniently timed for MMOCrunch declaring EVE to be the Best PVP MMO of 2011, I present to you: many, many numbers regarding explosions in New Eden. The information in this blog is limited to kills that have taken place since the new kill report system was intro...

Greetings again Capsuleers, Crucible is here. It has new nebulae, new ships, scalable UI, lots of balancing lots of cool features and a plethora of tweaks and fixes. It’s been a long few months of getting back to the roots of EVE, and we hope this shows you, the players, our direction for the foreseeable future.

Greetings Capsuleers, You might have seen the recent news item about the free implants coming to EVE this winter with Crucible. The first of these implants, the Genolution CA-1 is inbound very shortly. Everyone with an active paid account on Nov29th through Dec 2nd Dec 5th will get one to redeem for their character.

Have you ever had the need to find a specific item you know you was stuffed away in a station somewhere? Like for instance...your favorite Erebus? This is where the Asset Search comes in handy. Just insert the name of the item type you are looking for, ie. 'erebus ' and press the search button. That isn't helpful enough though.

I remember trails in EVE. A long time ago we really had them. In my memory they were cool. And beautiful. So I installed Empyrean Age again and played a little bit on one of our reference servers, “Classic client” of course. And it was then I realized that the old trails were actually really cool, but not exactly what I would call beautiful.

Hi, we are CCP Shiny and CCP Ronin and are writing on behalf of EVE Localization and Teams Stonehenge and Cerberus. We want to talk a bit about Localization and more specifically Cerberus, the new localization technology behind EVE Online that will be shipping incrementally, starting with the Crucible expansion. “Isn’t localization just about translating words into another language?” I hear you say.

Dear Spacefriends It’s been a pretty crazy ride. We’ve made some really cool spaceships, made some not so cool pants (the pants look good, but you know what I mean) and now we’re making cool spaceships again. I remember back when the CSM came here once and the “18 months” meme was first created.

As most of you are no doubt aware, many CCP employees were slaughtered in the Tama system yesterday in an unprecedented Live Event announced that same day. 71 members of the CCP in-game alliance took part and were (except for a handful of cowards who warped their capsules out!) eventually sent back to our home system of Polaris in need of new clones. Our goal was to mobilize a sizeable fleet of devs that would be tough enough to not be wiped out in minutes, but eventually we hoped to attract en...